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- Title
"Cursed with Self-Awareness": Gender-Bending, Subversion, and Irony in Bull Durham.
- Authors
Daughton, SuzanneM.
- Abstract
In this essay I argue that the popular baseball film/romantic comedy Bull Durham works against heteronormative viewing by infusing its scenes with an ironic sensibility that is both feminist and key to a gay male understanding of gender paradox. I rhetorically analyze the ways in which the film both reinscribes masculinity and encourages spectators rhetorically to identify with the female lead, Annie Savoy, thus modeling new possibilities for characters and viewers to understand sexuality.
- Subjects
FEMINIST criticism; FEMINISM; GAY people in motion pictures; SAVOY, Annie; FILM theory; IRONY in motion pictures
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 2, p96
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2010.507567